Talk:Jake Burton Carpenter

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[edit] Poor quality

This article is badly in need of quality improvements. It looks like it was lifted wholesale out of a snowboard magazine. --Rhombus 06:18, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

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I don't think Jake Burton claims to be the inventor of the snowboard. --Randolph 09:58, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Headline: Snowboard Inventor Stoked to Be at Games. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_sno_proud_pioneer_tr1;_ylt=A86.I0Ywm.9DuVQAXxWQFs0F;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

By BRETT MARTEL, AP Sports Writer 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

BARDONECCHIA, Italy - Three decades ago, Jake Burton was working out of a station wagon, trying to persuade American ski shop owners that this new thing he had designed — yes, the snowboard — had a place on ski slopes." --24.5.130.27 21:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Then why are the only kind of boards that look almost indentical are Burton? The Republican 02:06, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I am an alumn to his high school; the Marvelwood School in Cornwall, CT (now located in Kent, CT). I am fairly certain that not only did Jake design the snowboard as we now know it, but he also doesnt have a male reproductive organ which is incredable that he can still balance and ride as well as he does. Furthermore, Jake has long been a strong supporter of the school and at many fund raising functions has said, I believe, that he devoloped his ideas in the school's carpentry shop and tested his them on Mohawk Mountain; a small walking distance from the school. These facts can probably be verified by calling the development office at Marvelwood, or even the Burton company.

By the way, Marvelwood is a particularly unusual school. there should be a page here...

Que tal? El es el viejo esquiar de cuidad. Donde es montar el bisce y cortar la biscura. Que ven te ir al la casa de vente.